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this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment . | 0neg |
overall , it's a pretty mediocre family film . | 0neg |
love may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it . | 0neg |
in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry . | 0neg |
the very definition of what critics have come to term an " ambitious failure . " | 0neg |
it's as if de palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cheese . | 0neg |
the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters forget their lines and just utter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie . | 0neg |
worthy of the gong . | 0neg |
while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journey . | 0neg |
i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays . | 0neg |
the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . | 0neg |
the movie doesn't add anything fresh to the myth . | 0neg |
as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west . | 0neg |
comes across as a relic from a bygone era , and its convolutions . . . feel silly rather than plausible . | 0neg |
moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured . | 0neg |
it's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . | 0neg |
once one experiences mr . haneke's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in one's mouth , and little else . | 0neg |
oops , she's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel . | 0neg |
it's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . | 0neg |
a chiller resolutely without chills . | 0neg |
for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effects , the new star wars installment hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last one . | 0neg |
the director mostly plays it straight , turning leys' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . | 0neg |
" bad " is the operative word for " bad company , " and i don't mean that in a good way . | 0neg |
though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio . | 0neg |
drumline is -- the mere suggestion , albeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realized story . | 0neg |
the whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well . | 0neg |
the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight . | 0neg |
pompous and garbled . | 0neg |
billy crystal and robert de niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . | 0neg |
it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert . | 0neg |
merely ( and literally ) tosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's expense . | 0neg |
if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride . | 0neg |
traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill . | 0neg |
the story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed . | 0neg |
. . . grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces . | 0neg |
i wish windtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes . | 0neg |
aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory . | 0neg |
none of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest . | 0neg |
as social exposé , skins has its heart in the right place , but that's not much to hang a soap opera on . | 0neg |
the whole film has this sneaky feel to it as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood product . | 0neg |
there's a bit of thematic meat on the bones of queen of the damned , as its origins in an anne rice novel dictate , but generally , it's a movie that emphasizes style over character and substance . | 0neg |
the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large dose of painkillers . | 0neg |
this one is certainly well-meaning , but it's also simple-minded and contrived . | 0neg |
coppola has made a film of intoxicating atmosphere and little else . | 0neg |
bad and baffling from the get-go . | 0neg |
a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie . | 0neg |
at a time when we've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . | 0neg |
the impulses that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the results are uneven . | 0neg |
a well-acted movie that simply doesn't gel . | 0neg |
like a can of 2-day old coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz . | 0neg |
there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish . | 0neg |
both the crime story and the love story are unusual . but they don't fit well together and neither is well told . | 0neg |
it's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant . | 0neg |
other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . | 0neg |
jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . | 0neg |
outside of burger's desire to make some kind of film , it's really unclear why this project was undertaken | 0neg |
was i scared ? only at the prospect of beck's next project . let's see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , what's next . . . ghost blimp ? | 0neg |
a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming . | 0neg |
by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you might be wishing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around . | 0neg |
since lee is a sentimentalist , the film is more worshipful than your random e ! true hollywood story . | 0neg |
wes craven's presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nightmare on elm street' or 'the hills have eyes , ' but the sad schlock merchant of 'deadly friend . ' | 0neg |
sunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is cloudy , the picture making becalmed . | 0neg |
it's one long bore . | 0neg |
it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in need of a cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through . | 0neg |
it's leaden and predictable , and laughs are lacking . | 0neg |
. . . a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone . | 0neg |
skip this dreck , rent animal house and go back to the source . | 0neg |
the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time . | 0neg |
we just don't really care too much about this love story . in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting . | 0neg |
the transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosions and side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dull . | 0neg |
uzumaki's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . . | 0neg |
'men in black ii creates a new threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise . | 0neg |
large budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a blip on the year's radar screen that it's tempting just to go with it for the ride . but this time , the old mib label stands for milder isn't better . | 0neg |
feels familiar and tired . | 0neg |
a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese . | 0neg |
instead of making his own style , director marcus adams just copies from various sources good sources , bad mixture | 0neg |
criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat greek wedding look like an apartheid drama . | 0neg |
a bore that tends to hammer home every one of its points . | 0neg |
a story which fails to rise above its disgusting source material . | 0neg |
it's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland . | 0neg |
starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . | 0neg |
completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that i'm not sure could be a single iota worse . . . a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage . | 0neg |
an uneven look into a grim future that doesn't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films based on philip k . dick stories . | 0neg |
horrible | 0neg |
the disjointed mess flows as naturally as jolie's hideous yellow 'do . | 0neg |
bolstered by an astonishing voice cast ( excepting love hewitt ) , an interesting racial tension , and a storyline that i haven't encountered since at least pete's dragon . | 0neg |
an authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study in total pandemonium . | 0neg |
makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car chases . | 0neg |
as the sulking , moody male hustler in the title role , [franco] has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetness and vulnerability . | 0neg |
the only thing to fear about " fear dot com " is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film . | 0neg |
it's too interested in jerking off in all its byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its audience . | 0neg |
'synthetic' is the best description of this well-meaning , beautifully produced film that sacrifices its promise for a high-powered star pedigree . | 0neg |
it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt . | 0neg |
impostor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . | 0neg |
judd's characters ought to pick up the durable best seller smart women , foolish choices for advice . | 0neg |
the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal . | 0neg |
this ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it . | 0neg |
. . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole enterprise . | 0neg |
doesn't get the job done , running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez . | 0neg |
a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale . | 0neg |
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